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them up again II they nave fallen! II g
manufacturer of telescopes drop telescope
on the door and it breaks, can he not
mend it again SO you can see through
|. lrs And il God drops the human eye
into the dust, the eye which he originally
fashioned, can He not restore it Aye, il
the manufacturer of the telescope by q
change of the glass and change of focus can
make a better glass than that which was
originally constructed, and actually improve
it, do you not think the faShioner of the
human eye may improve its sight and
multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold
additional forces CT the resurrection eyea
"Why should it be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise the
of what grew all these flowers! Out Of the
mould and the earth. Resurrected! Resur.
rectedl The radiant butterfly, where
did it come FRONT The loathsome
caterpillar. That albatross, that srnites
the tempest with its wing, where
did it come froma A senseless shell.
Near Be rgerac, France, in a Celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
it, and it came up; it bloomed in bluebal and
heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried,
yet resurrected. A traveller says he found in
a mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had
bsen buried there three thousand years ago;
He brought them out and on the 4th Of June,
1874, he planted them, and in thirty days
they sprang up. Buried three thousand
years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead E'
Where did all this silk come from-the silk
that adorns your persons and your honest
In the hollow of staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progeni-
tors Of those worms that now supply the silk
market of many nations. The pageantry Of
hammered host and the luxurious articles
Of commercial emporium blazing out
from the silk worms. And who shall be
surprised if out Of this Insignificant earthly
body, this Insignificant earthly Ife.- our
bodies unfold into something worthy of the
coming eternities Put silver into diluted
nitro and it dissolves. Is the silver gone for.
ever? No. Put in some pieces Of copper and
the silver reappearS. If one force diSSolveS
another force organizes.
"Why should it be thought thing incredi-
BILE with you that God should raise the dead"
The insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler and feebler, and then stopped
They have taken no food, they want none
They lay dormant and insensible, but soon
the south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, and the air and the earth will
be full of them. Do you not think
that God can do as much for our bodies as He
does for the wasps and the spiders and the
snails! This morning at 4:SO o'clock there was
resurrection. Out of the night, the day. In
few weeks there will be a resurrection in all
our gardens Why not some day resurrec-
ton amid all the graves.
Ever and anon there are instances OF men
and women entranced.
A. trance is death followed by resurrection
after few days total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. William
rennent, great evangelist of the last gem
Grafton, of whom DIR. Archibald Alexander,
a man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terns-Rev William Ten
nent seemed to die. His spirit departed.
People. came in day after day and said:
"He is dead, he is dead" But the soul that
fled returned, and William Tennent lived to
write out the experiences of what he had seen
while his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time that what is called suspended ami
nation or comatose state is brief death, giving
the soul an excursion into the next world
from which it comes back, q furlough Of
q few hours granted from the conflict
of life to which it must return. Do not this
waking up OF men from trance, and this wax
ing up ofinSectS from winter Ifelessness, and
this waking up Of grains buried three thou
sand years ago, make it easier for you
to believe that your body and mine
after the vacation Of the grave shall
rouse and rally, though there be three
thousand years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelic reveillea
Psychologists tell us that while the most Of
our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing, and the
loss Of finger is Underwent, and the
injury Of a toe-joint makes us lame,
still that We have two or three use
less physical apparati, and no anatomist
or Psychologist has never been able to tell
what they are for. They are no doubt the
foundation Of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state, to be indispensa-
bly, valuable in the next state. The Jewish
rabbins had only q hint Of this sug-
gestion when they said that in the
human frame there was small bone which
was to be the basis Of the resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a de-
lusion. But this thing is certain, the
Christian scientists of our day have found out
that there are two or three supsrauities Of
body that are something gloriously sugges-
tive of another state.
called at my friends house one summer
day. found the yard all piled up with the
rubbish of carpenter and mason's work The
door was of. The plumbers had torn up the
floor. The roof was being lifted in
cupola. All the pictures were gone, and
the paper-hangers were doing their work.
All the modern Improvements were being
introduced into that dwelling. There was
not room in the house fit to live in at that
time, although a month before when visited
that house everything was so beautiful I
could not have suggested an Improvement
My friend had gone with his family to
the Holy Land, expecting to come
back at tho END Of six months
when the building was to be done. AND
oh, what was his joy when at the end Of six
months, he returned and the old house was
enlarged and improved and glorified! That
is your body. 1t looks well now-al the
rooms filled with health, and we could hardly
make suggestion. But after awhile your soul
will go to the Holy Land. and while you are
gone the old house Of your tabernacle will
and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue
and artery must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned and
raised and curolaed and enlarged, and all the
improvements of heaven introduced and you
will move into it on resurrection day. "For
v7e know that if our earthly house Of
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have q
building of God, house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" They are
very fond Of each other Did your body ever
have pain and your soul not pity it. or your
byhd BODY have joy and your t,s soul mot not
don, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathizs
with it, growing wan and weak under the
depressing influence! Or did your soul ever
have gladneSs but your body celebrated it
with kindled eye and cheek and elastic stepl
Surely God never intended two such good
friends to be very long separated. And so
when the worlds last Easter morning shall
come tho soul will descend, crying: "Where is
my body" and the body will ascend, saying:
"Where is my soul?" and the Lord of the res
direction win bring them together, and it will
Tea perfect soul in perfect body, introduced
by a perfect Cnrlst into O perfect heaven.